Show insiders say the arguments were caused by city trader Joshante, 20, becoming paranoid that she was getting friendly with the hunky boyband member while living in the X Factor house together.

And now Jay’s fellow bandmates Joe “Connor” Conaboy and JJ Thompson have revealed that he’s providing a shoulder for Tamera, 16, to cry on.

Thompson revealed: “We can see Jay and Tamera getting together as they are really cute as a couple. I sat and watched them play table tennis together the other day and was like, ‘They are so cute together’.

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“Jay is really good friends with Tamera and he really fancies her too. It takes Jay quite a while to get round to the point where he makes a move as he likes to become their friend first.

“They have a connection and talk a lot. They talk about their problems with each other and you’d want that within a relationship.

“Jay is one of the nicest boys ever and Tamera has obviously noticed that. She definitely has got a soft spot for him.”

Bandmate Connor added: “He acts like a schoolkid around her. We’ve already started calling them Jaymera.

“Knowing Jay he will have helped her through her break-up. He is very protective over her. When Tamera’s ex-boyfriend released a story on her he got very angry about it.

“I was like, ‘Jay you’re not her boyfriend’ but you could just tell he really cared about how she felt. Jay would never in a million years do something like that.”